bass tab required urgently :/

hey guys therz farewell of my seniors at my school and I would be playing bass guitar for the 1st time in school….i want the bass guitar tabs for the song : Farewell (To You My friend ) - Raymond Lauchengco

the transposed guitar chord progression goes like this :

A|E|C#m|F#m|Bm|E|A|A

please people help me asap as i have to practice

umm sry I didn't get it….can u please explain?

Yes i play guitar and drums but bass guitar is new for me….so i really want some one to help me

When moving to the next root you can add a single note that leads to the next root a beat early, just listen to the song and you'll probably hear something like that..

e.g. if the change goes from A to E and you're playing


you can do something like this


so that the root still changes at the right time but you play a different note before you go to the next chord. You don't have to play the F#, you can (and probably will want to) try any note in the scale other than A and E.

Also when playing over a chord you don't need to just play the root note but you can figure out or make up a bass line. Keep everything in scale and it should sound right. You can take a chord and look at which notes are in the chord and just play those note. E.g. A major chord has A, C# and E so just play those notes before going to the next chord.

something like this


so I've kept the note that ties the two chords together and changed the three As to play a simple line over the chord.

Listen to the song and when figuring it out just refer to the scale.

Nice of you to put so much effort into this Johnny. This merits being made sticky in a bass lessons section. I've seen this same question come up many times, but I haven't seen it answered in so helpful a manner.

Cheers.